How Twitter Changed Music in the 2010s; MySpace Music: A Forgotten Casualty of the Streaming War

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How Twitter Changed Music in the 2010s — pitchfork.com 
 Hashtag rap! Kanye rants! Terrifying stan pile-ons! For better and worse, Twitter has forever altered the music landscape.

MySpace Music: A Forgotten Casualty Of The Streaming Wars — www.forbes.com 
 Here’s why you aren’t making MySpace playlists in 2019.

Spotify’s Canvas Video-Looping Tool Expands Beta With More Artists Are Getting Access — www.billboard.com

Canvas — the Spotify tool that allows select artists to add short looping visuals to their music on the streaming service — is going wider.

Mechanical Licensing Collective: Digital Services Question Costs as Funding Remains Up in the Air — www.billboard.com 
 Even though the Mechanical Licensing Collective has proposed a $29 million annual budget, the digital services which must fund it are dragging their feet on approving that budget.

Musicians Can Launch Their Own Paid Streaming Service with Waterfall — www.hypebot.com

Legendary progressive musician Neal Morse joins Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on the Music Biz Weekly podcast to talk about Waterfall Streaming.

60% Chinese willing to pay for online music — www.ecns.cn 
 Nearly 60 percent of Chinese users are willing pay to listen to music online with the sector on the right track amid copyright protection measures, People’s Daily reported.

Deezer IPO is back on — musically.com 
 It appears that Deezer’s strategy is to double down on the markets that the digital behemoths are, for now, not focusing too heavily on as they slug it out for dominance in the top 20 markets.

Sony Launches Spotify Data-Driven Personalized Merch For Bring Me The Horizon — www.hypebot.com

Sony has launched a line of customized merch created by Spotify data for the fans of UK rock band .

Google Pixel 4 event: will the Pixel Buds 2 close the gap? — www.theverge.com

Apple, Samsung, Amazon, and Microsoft have announced or released truly wireless earbuds in a way to get people hooked on their virtual assistants or further locked into their hardware ecosystems.

Help Wanted: Spotify’s Global Head of Music Oversees 100 Employees and 5,000-Plus Playlists — www.billboard.com 
 Spotify is looking for a new executive to lead the teams and global strategy for editorial, programming, catalog, talent relations and more.

Roadblocks to Royalties: Music Modernization Act Turns 1 as Publishers and DSPs Wrestle With the Details — www.billboard.com 
 The Music Modernization Act created a mechanical licensing collective. Now publishers and streaming services need to come to terms on how to build it — and settle the bill.

Dawn Ostroff Is Leading Spotify Into a World Beyond Music — www.rollingstone.com

Spotify’s new chief content officer believes that podcasts hold the key to the company’s ambitious expansion plans.

Wizkid plans his own streaming service — musically.com

Nigerian star Wizkid says he is planning his own music streaming app — done in partnership with the United Bank For Africa.

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